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The Cars We Drove into Capitalism (2021)

The Cars We Drove into Capitalism (2021)

History TV Movie Documentary
Release Date: 2021, October 27
Directors: Georgi Bogdanov, Boris Missirkov
Countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Croatia
Production: Agitprop, Endorfilm, Danish Documentary, Saxonia Entertainment, Hulahop, MDR, ARTE
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Erich Honecker, Todor Zhivkov, Leonid Brezhnev, Petar Klissarov, Kristina Traktirova, John Haugland, Marion Mahlke, Rolf Mahlke, Neven Nevenov, Tania Petkovska, Nikita Rogushin

Overview:

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.

Keywords:

nostalgia communism cold war collector eastern europe soviet union automobile industry trabant car restoration